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IMPORTANT QUESTION IS SETTLED
Board Gives Final Word to Colored Committee
There'll be no normal school after the close of this year. The question is settled. There is no need of further suspense. Members of the Board of Education for several years known to Negroes of this community, and the Superintendent, regarded as a different type because of his years and training, have spoken. So far as the Normal School is concerned Negroes can turn prayers and papers in another direction. The hearts of the Board have not been touched. They made up their minds to close the Normal School for Negroes, and they did. After hearing members of a committee of colored citizens, who put before the Board all their repertoire of figures, facts and ideas afforded in the effort to stem the tide, the Board informed the colored gentlemen that heir decision was final. Therefore the Normal for ambitious young colored ladies who seek such training as the Normal afforded those who aspired to be teachers, is closed because there is no need of spending even a measly two or three thousand dollars a year to maintais a normal school for colored teachers unless they are placed during the year and in the city at that. Can you beat it?
FORMER LINCOLN SCHOOL PRINCIPAL PUTS THE QUESTION, "DOES EDUCATION PAY?"
(By G. W. Jackson, Central High School.
Benjamin Franklin said that an investment in education pays the best dividend. Franklin was such an experienced, observant, thoughtful, matter-of-fact man that well informed people are disposed to accept without question what he says. Uneducated people, whether their condition is their own fault or not, are constantly deploring the fact that they have no education. Experience, that veteran teacher who keeps a very excellent school, has convinced them that to be without an education is to have constant handicaps.
Last year the people of our forty-eight states spent considerably over a billion dollars on their schools. This looks like concrete evidence of their belief in the worthwhileness of education. The fact is that the American states maintain free public schools on the theory that education makes the best citizens.
Last year while 2,000,000 young folks were attending our high Schools, nearly 300,000 were pursuing courses in trades, technical and professional schools. One would hesitate to contend that these young people, some of them the clearest-brained youth in our land, were all deluded; following a will-o'-wisp.
It is generally conceded that success should not be defined or measured merely in terms of dollars and cents. But if we are disposed to do that, the advantages of education are apparent. Authorities are agreed that while much of our practical training for earning a living comes through actual experience in the working world, yet without the training which the school gives us, few could hope to make much headway in raising ourselves above the mere ability to earn an existence.
Education increases the earning power of the individual. The boy or girl who quits school too soon goes out into life limited to the lower wage levels; and if he rises out of these, seriously handicapped in competition with boys and girls who have finished school.
Here are two tables, striking pretty fairly the average of wages and salaries computed on the basis of pay per week. To those who think the value of education in terms of dollars, these tables tell their own story:
Table A.
Cooks .... $10 - $15 Maids .... 8 - 12 Porters .... 12 - 20 Deliverymen .... 15 - 20 Tobacco workers .... 15 - 20 City hands .... 18 - 20 Table B.
Trained nurses .... $35 - $40 Postal clerks .... 25 - 44 First class carpenters .... 36 - 40 Stenographers .... 20 - 40 To make no comparisons as to the nature of the work, the conditions under which it is done, the chances of promotion, the standing given, the reflex influence of the work on the worker; the educated person, as a rule, knows how to spend his earnings more profitably.
Twenty years ago Booker T. Washington asked representative Southern business men: "Does education make the Negro a more valuable workman, especially when skill and thought are necessary?' Two answered "No" One hundred and thirty-two responded, "Yes."
Education does more and better things--it gives a bigger and clearer meaning of life; it widens and deepens our interests; it helps us to understand our relationship to the people and institutions around us; it raises our standard of living; it makes us worth more to ourselves and society.
My two boys and I were going to
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LEADERS TAKE ACTION IN MEETING HERE -- Vote To Give Opposition Wide Publicity It is now more plainly seen that the Negro is to be an unknown quantity as regards what he is going to do in the coming election, until the day after, unless somebody gets busy and puts new ideas in his head. It was hardly expected that there would be any opposition to the $75,0000,000 bond issue on the part of the thousands of colored voters of the State, but there is opposition, and from all indications, that opposition is something to be reckoned with. A conference on the subject of the $75,000,000 bond issue was called Friday, August 22, and representative colored men from all sections of the state attended. After the subject had been well discussed it is reported that a resolution passed that those present use their influence against the bond. A committee consisting of H. C. Russell, Deas Kirk Smith and J. W. Bell was appointed to secure as wide publicity as possible for the action of the conference. Plans were outlined through which the committee is to carry out its purpose, and it is said that nothing is to be left undone in the effort to defeat the $75,000,000 bond issue when it comes to the voters in November.
Votes May be Scattered Between the Three Candidates.
Every man and woman of voting age is asked to go to the polls and register Monday and Tuesday. To vote is a right that every citizen has, and every citizen's interest in his community, in his country, and in good government will regard it his duty to vote and will vote. In order to vote in the November election, there must (Continued on page 8)
CLAIM 60,000
MRS. LENA MA­SON FOUND DEAD IN HOME
at Jefferson Park, S. Preston St., Monday, September 22, 1924
All Churches. Lodges, Business firms and Schools of Louisviile and Surrounding Towns Are Requested to Join in This Great Event
the Auspices of the United Methodist Episcopal Churches